RE: A solution to inappropriate flagging? ( ones based entirely on ideological differences....)

[elsteemo]

"Only those lacking the skills to partake in intelligent debate decide to flag, and that's only due to the weak ideologies that can't be defended (imo)."

Your opinion is worthless garbage. No one should feel obligated to debate with racists or homophobes. It just deserves a flag and contempt. It's like debating religious nuts or people who think the earth is flat, by engaging you we have elevated the status of your stupid opinions to the level of being something worth discussion.

People are getting flagged for hate speech, it has nothing to do with your political viewpoint. Steemit is not a safe space for hate, it says right on the button when you flag

Flagging a post can remove rewards and make this material less visible. Some common reasons to flag

Disagreement on rewards
Fraud or Plagiarism
Hate Speech or Internet Trolling

What part of that do you not understand?

Comments

[jimbobbill]

Your comment itself highlights the problem on this site and in the world. The arrogance of people still astounds me. I don't believe the earth is flat and I don't believe that everything written in the bible is absolutely true but I am open to the possibility and I'm not arrogant enough to laugh at people or be rude to those who believe things I do not and to dismiss it because I 'know better'. (I used to be about 10-15 years ago). Being open minded, even to ideas that you find repulsive or ridiculous is essential if there is to be progress.

You can flag who you like but your flags come from a confidence that is unfounded and a refusal to consider other possibilities.

"By engaging them we have elevated the status of your stupid opinions to the level of being worth discussion".

How breathtakingly arrogant and self assured.

Using excuses like "They aren't worthy of debate" is weak. It's like the people who not only refuse to debate the Holocaust, but shut down those that do and introduce laws to prevent debate. The truth needs no laws to protect it and if you feel there is no point in debating particular topics that is fine but to make judgments and proclamations that you are right and everyone else is wrong about whatever topic you think you have the moral/intellectual high ground is ridiculous and makes you look like a fool (just like you think that anyone who considers that there might be a creator or questions the assertion that everything we see in the world arose from a single celled organism that appeared out of nowhere and randomly mutated is a fool).

[truthforce]

Just because steemit.com wrote up some "reasons for flagging" doesn't mean someone should flag for those reasons, or even that they are valid, or that they are the "end all be all no questions asked".

That is some of the reasons that steemit.com lists as "reasons for flagging". Last time I checked Steemit Inc

• Laid off 70% of their staff
• Grossly mismanaged their money(should have sold tons of SP as prices went up so they could bankroll their company for decades).
• Don't understand how to advertise and bring in new users(Gab/Minds/Voat are exploding with user growth)
• Fail miserably on their costs of running their own servers(which are like 10x anyone else's server costs)
• Have horrible communication on what they are doing
• Communities? Remember those? Yeah 2 years ago they promised that...
• Are creating SMTs even though the ICO craze on other blockchains is over and ICOs in general fail 90% of the time/are scams/lose investors all their money
• In general are pretty incompetent.

I don't look to them for any guidance on anything and neither should you.

Anyways, more to follow.

[stevescoins]

who defines "racist"?

you..when someone disagrees with you?

rofl